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B-167602 1 (1973-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadkj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: dPP ~~%1 COMPTflOLLER GIENERAL OF THE UIIITEO STATES WA4t IRIGTOtI, D.C. X043 B167602 September 21, 1973 Hr. Lorenzo C, Baca F, 0, Box 113 Tijeraq, fNe ,Mexico 87059 Dear Hr, Bacil Wa refer to your letter of August ,1 1972jequesti4k.ovr'riee cornpensatio~7~or the period from January of 1959 to July 1, 1966, for pre- liminary an4 postliminary duties porfonied w hilo employed by the keneru1 Services Adnatnistration (GSA) no a security policeman at the Albuquerque Operations Off;'ce, Atomic Energy Corm~ission. Your climt initially filed iflth this Office on January 27, 1969, was diuallowed by Sattleiment Certificate dated ?Larch 19, 1969. That dis- allowance was pedicated ona the fact that perfornance of the duties Involved had never been nutbhorized or approved by an official having authority to authorize nd approve overtir.m. ClnirA of other guard mneri- bers which were oubnitted with your claim were u.iilarly disnallowed. Those settlements were later reviewed pursuant to a cowaresaional request, howeWr, no basis was foiud to alter the acttons taken, These preliminary and postlicmncry duties for which overtime compensation is claiiied are chan~ting into .ni out of uniform, picking up and replacing bolt, arruunition aid re.vol..r, stunding inspection for physical fitness, receiving special instructions and assigntients, and walking to your assigned Guard pont. During the period of the claim guards welt. under the jurisdiction of the GSA which furnishad gcurey guard servLce for tho Albuquerque Operations Office. Guards employed at tnat oto:ion were assigned to 8-hour tours of duty without a nonpaid lunch bnk. In order to pro- vide continued coverage at each guard post, guardo were required to be at their assirned posts ready for duty at the timo desiptated for the beginning of their ahist. Althouah the guards wore alloved to war their basic mifors botveen work and home thw: icre required to keep their caps, badges and bolts, as velt as thoir ravolvers and ammunition at a central location in the Albuquerque Operations Office inatallntion, The GSA has reported to us that the guards would normally sijn in at the front gate before the beginning of their chifts so that they could walk to the central location, obtain uniform items and weapons and receive special inntructions at that place vid than walk to their assigned posts, SP U.TSHIED DECISION , 53 Cvnip. ,, . * t3o7/ 7 7 -

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